item: #1 of 14
          id: 10491
      author: Powers, Leland Todd
       title: Practice Book, Leland Powers School
        date: None
       words: 19853
      flesch: 93
     summary: Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. I would call upon all the true sons of New England to co-operate with the laws of man and the justice of heaven.
    keywords: arthur; camelot; come; day; god; good; green; heart; john; king; lady; left; life; light; lord; love; man; men; mind; mrs; shalott; sir; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; work; world
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        item: #2 of 14
          id: 11921
      author: Various
       title: The Illustrated London Reading Book
        date: None
       words: 95714
      flesch: 69
     summary: _ with unreserved confidence IMPO'RT, _v.a._ carry into any country from abroad IMPO'RTANCE, _s._ thing imported, or implied; consequence; matter IMPO'RTANT, _a._ in a different manner; by other causes; in other respects OU'TLET, _s._ passage outward OU'TSET, _s._ setting out; departure OU'TWARD, _a._ external; opposed to _inward_.
    keywords: account; act; age; air; animal; appearance; battle; beauty; bird; black; body; care; character; city; country; course; day; death; degree; description; distance; earth; end; england; eye; eyes; fall; feet; field; fire; food; foot; form; general; god; gold; good; green; ground; half; hand; head; heart; height; high; history; hope; hour; house; illustration; kind; king; knowledge; lay; left; length; letter; life; line; lord; love; man; manner; means; men; miles; mind; mountains; music; native; nature; near; night; number; o'er; order; parts; people; person; place; pleasure; point; power; present; purpose; queen; read; reason; river; rock; sails; sea; set; shore; sir; sleep; soul; species; state; stone; strong; summer; sun; surface; thee; things; thought; time; tree; v.a; v.n; view; wall; war; water; way; white; wild; wind; winter; work; world; year
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        item: #3 of 14
          id: 16936
      author: Parker, Richard Green
       title: Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C.
        date: None
       words: 38760
      flesch: 87
     summary: I often heard this word; and every time it was spoken, _water_ was brought, or poured out, or something was done with _water_. This is a long and hard word, and means _a fear of water_.
    keywords: bird; book; boy; children; daughter; day; dear; dog; father; fire; friends; god; good; heat; house; illustration; lesson; man; morning; mother; people; read; subject; teacher; things; thought; time; water; way; wish; wood; words; work
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        item: #4 of 14
          id: 17378
      author: None
       title: Successful Recitations
        date: None
       words: 111173
      flesch: 87
     summary: And, as good men do, he sate At his board by these surrounded, Flourishing in fair estate. He sailed his ships for work; he bore His sword for battle-wear; His creed was Best man to the fore; And he was always there.
    keywords: arms; battle; black; blood; boy; boys; brave; bright; brother; child; come; country; dark; day; dead; dear; death; deep; die; door; earth; end; england; ere; eyes; face; fair; father; fear; feet; field; fire; flag; foe; george; glory; god; good; green; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; high; hill; home; honour; hour; house; john; king; know; lady; lay; left; life; little; look; lord; love; man; men; miles; moment; morning; morrow; mother; new; night; o'er; old; passed; place; poor; red; rest; ring; room; rose; round; saw; sea; set; sir; smile; son; soul; stand; story; sun; sweet; tell; thee; things; think; thought; thy; time; tis; tree; twas; victory; voice; war; way; white; wife; wild; wind; woman; word; work; years; young
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        item: #5 of 14
          id: 19926
      author: None
       title: Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions from Best Authors for Use in Class Room and on the Platform
        date: None
       words: 152600
      flesch: 85
     summary: Some are receiving the blessings of old men. If it seeks to establish a line of cleavage, not along the line which divides good men from bad, but along that other line, running at right angles thereto, which divides those who are well off from those who are less well off, then it will be fraught with immeasurable harm to the body politic.
    keywords: act; air; american; answer; arms; battle; bed; black; blood; boy; capt; cause; child; cold; come; country; cry; dark; dat; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; den; dey; door; dora; dot; earth; england; eyes; face; faith; father; feet; fellow; footnote; gal; gave; glory; god; gold; good; government; ground; half; hand; hast; head; heart; heaven; history; home; honor; hope; hour; house; human; john; king; lady; land; law; left; liberty; life; little; look; lord; love; man; mary; men; mind; moment; money; mother; mrs; nation; new; night; people; place; poor; power; public; pyg; pygmalion; rest; room; scene; sea; set; sir; slavery; son; soul; sound; speak; spirit; stand; state; sun; sweet; tell; ter; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; tree; truth; und; union; voice; want; war; way; white; wife; woman; words; work; world; years; young
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        item: #6 of 14
          id: 28498
      author: Various
       title: The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906.
        date: None
       words: 36836
      flesch: 85
     summary: Other watchers are glad to hear the church clock strike, for they tell of life and coming day. At the station Miss Forsythe shook her limp little hand.
    keywords: ardelia; art; black; boy; carver; children; day; death; deep; doone; door; emmy; eyes; face; god; good; hand; hattie; head; heart; home; house; john; lady; life; lily; little; look; lorna; lou; man; men; miss; people; right; room; round; sadie; school; teacher; thing; thought; time; want; water; way
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        item: #7 of 14
          id: 29477
      author: Various
       title: The Universal Reciter 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems
        date: None
       words: 69312
      flesch: 94
     summary: _Miss P._ Take her to the kitchen, Juno. _Miss P._ Girls, what does this mean? _Sadie.
    keywords: aunt; away; bed; black; bonnet; boy; boys; day; dead; dear; death; door; eye; eyes; face; fanny; father; freedom; god; good; gray; hand; head; heart; home; hope; house; jenny; jest; john; josiah; juno; kitty; left; life; lizzie; look; love; man; mean; men; miss; mother; mrs; new; night; patrick; poor; red; round; sadie; saw; soul; tell; thee; thing; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; tom; tooler; voice; want; way; white; wid; wife; world
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        item: #8 of 14
          id: 34498
      author: Emerson, Charles Wesley
       title: Evolution of Expression, Volume 2—Revised A Compilation of Selections Illustrating the Four Stages of Development in Art As Applied to Oratory; Twenty-Eighth Edition
        date: None
       words: 25107
      flesch: 84
     summary: 4. Old Wardle led the way to a pretty large sheet of ice; and, the fat boy and Mr. Weller having shovelled and swept away the snow which had fallen on it during the night, Mr. Bob Sawyer adjusted his skates with a dexterity which to Mr. Winkle was perfectly marvellous, and described circles with his left leg, and cut figures of eight, and inscribed upon the ice, without once stopping for breath, a great many other pleasant and astonishing devices, to the excessive satisfaction of Mr. Pickwick, Mr. Tupman, and the ladies; which reached a pitch of positive enthusiasm when old Wardle and Benjamin Allen, assisted by the aforesaid Bob Sawyer, performed some mystic evolutions, which they called a reel. Mr. Winkle stooping forward, with his body half doubled up, was being assisted over the ice by Mr. Weller, in a very singular and un-swan-like manner, when Mr. Pickwick most innocently shouted from the opposite bank,-- Sam! Sir? said Mr. Weller.
    keywords: air; bells; bru; cas; come; day; eye; glegg; god; good; heart; iii; life; love; man; mrs; old; parts; people; pickwick; ros; sam; sir; sister; slide; tact; talent; thou; thought; thy; time; way; winkle; world
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        item: #9 of 14
          id: 38053
      author: Various
       title: The Coo-ee Reciter: Humorous, Pathetic, Dramatic, Dialect, Recitations & Readings
        date: None
       words: 25741
      flesch: 90
     summary: Last man! I killed a man at Graspan, I killed him fightin' fair; We came on each other face to face, An' we went at it then and there.
    keywords: baby; bill; caudle; day; dead; dear; der; dobbins; dot; duchess; eyes; face; free; god; good; hand; head; heart; home; larrie; life; little; look; love; man; men; moment; new; night; place; round; run; seeing; soul; thought; time; way; white; wife; wool
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        item: #10 of 14
          id: 38579
      author: None
       title: Recitations for the Social Circle. Selected and Original
        date: None
       words: 70454
      flesch: 86
     summary: I call upon you, old men, for your counsels, and your prayers, and your benedictions. But why should you act upon a different rule from other men? Because different men set different values upon deir lives; mine is not in the market.
    keywords: 'em; black; boy; child; children; clarence; come; country; cry; dat; day; days; dead; dear; death; door; dot; earth; eyes; face; father; feet; fire; girl; god; good; hair; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; home; hope; house; james; john; kind; know; land; life; little; look; love; man; men; mit; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; people; power; red; round; sea; sir; soul; sweet; thought; thy; time; und; voice; want; way; wife; woman; work; world; years; yer; young
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        item: #11 of 14
          id: 40576
      author: Richards, Alice Lewis
       title: "Smiles": A Book of Recitations for Girls
        date: None
       words: 15926
      flesch: 95
     summary: One day she was swinging her doll to and fro, Mother Robin was peeking at her below; She said: Little girl, little girl, look up to me, I've four little birdies for you to see. 126 THREE LITTLE KITTENS 128 THE SPIDER'S PARLOR 129 MOTHER GOOSE'S DINNER PARTY 132 OLIVE'S ADVICE 136 THE OLD AND THE NEW 137 PA'S WAYS 139 THE SPIDER AND THE BEE 142 KITTY BELL 143 THE BIRDS' PARTY 145 JANUARY 148 FEBRUARY 149 MARCH 150 APRIL 151 MAY 152 JUNE 153 _Little girls with sunny smiles
    keywords: baby; bed; come; day; dolly; girl; good; night; play; poor; pretty; robin; santa; think; time; tree
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        item: #12 of 14
          id: 49291
      author: None
       title: Beadle's Dime National Speaker, Embodying Gems of Oratory and Wit, Particularly Adapted to American Schools and Firesides Speaker Series Number 2, Revised and Enlarged Edition
        date: None
       words: 32640
      flesch: 72
     summary: Well, you _did_ miss a sight, got up for the especial benefit of darkies, perhaps, but every white man, of good _standing_, could enjoy it--_if_ Would that its lesson of _equal laws_ involving equal burdens and equal benefits, equal duties and equal protection, and of strict regard for constitutional limitation in all cases, was made the basis of all our political action!
    keywords: age; american; beadle; bird; blood; boat; bull; children; civilization; constitution; country; day; dime; earth; england; glory; god; good; government; great; hand; heart; heaven; home; human; land; law; life; little; love; man; men; nation; new; people; public; rats; right; sir; spirit; states; sun; things; thought; time; union; united; war; washington; world
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        item: #13 of 14
          id: 4942
      author: Emerson, Charles Wesley
       title: Evolution of Expression — Volume 1
        date: None
       words: 25450
      flesch: 80
     summary: Oh, there be players, that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, Pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.
    keywords: air; analysis; art; day; death; expression; god; good; great; hand; heart; iii; kettle; life; light; like; lord; love; man; men; mind; nature; pupil; rain; spirit; student; teacher; thee; think; thought; time; voice; way; work; world
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        item: #14 of 14
          id: 7211
      author: Philbrick, John D. (John Dudley)
       title: The American Union Speaker
        date: None
       words: 198637
      flesch: 77
     summary: The authors we reckon great, whose word is in the newspaper, and the market-place, whose articulate breath now sways the nation's mind, will soon pass away, giving place to other great men of a season, who in their turn shall follow them to eminence and then to oblivion. If I might venture to appeal to what is so much out of fashion in Paris, I mean to experience, I should tell you that in my course I have known, and, according to my measure, have coöperated with great men; and I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in business.
    keywords: age; air; american; arms; battle; bear; bells; blood; boy; brave; cause; character; children; cold; come; common; constitution; country; course; day; dead; death; deep; die; duty; earth; eloquence; england; eye; eyes; face; fall; father; fear; field; find; fire; flag; foe; force; form; freedom; friend; general; genius; gentlemen; glory; god; good; government; ground; half; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; high; history; hold; home; honor; hope; hour; house; human; justice; king; know; land; law; laws; lay; leave; left; liberty; life; living; look; lord; love; man; march; massachusetts; means; men; mind; moment; mother; nation; national; nature; new; north; o'er; ocean; peace; people; poor; power; present; principles; proud; public; question; rebellion; religion; right; saw; sea; sir; slavery; slaves; sons; soul; sound; south; speak; speech; spirit; stand; stars; states; strength; sun; sword; tell; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; toll; truth; union; united; vain; voice; war; washington; water; way; webster; white; words; work; world; years; young
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